At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Needless to say, the effect was really there, and a strange emotion gradually permeated the Wu army barracks along the river.

As a result, the number of deserters decreased, Wu Jun's fighting will became high, and he was not so afraid of Wei Jun, so he would not have fled in despair before fighting.

Only when the morale of the army stabilizes can there be hope of victory.

During this period, Zhou Yu never gave up on asking Liu Biao for help. He always asked Liu Biao to send troops to help, otherwise, once Wu State perished, he, Liu Jingsheng, would be next.

Although Liu Biao was afraid of Guo Peng Bingfeng in his heart, after thinking about it, he felt that what Zhou Yu said made sense.

The relationship between the two sides is bitter, if Guo Peng destroys Sun Wu, won't he be more dangerous?

At that time, Jingzhou will face enemies on three sides. Once Guo Peng launches an attack, he will almost be defeated. How can he be a local emperor?

It is undoubtedly the best if the current situation can be maintained.

Now that the Wei army has decided to destroy Wu, Liu Biao must dispatch to counter the Wei army.

So under this circumstance, in mid-June, Liu Biao ordered Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia, to wait for the opportunity to lead the army to attack Lujiang, so as to share the pressure for Sun Wu.

Huang Zu saw that Guo Peng had been unhappy for a long time, and he had always been a staunch anti-Guo faction. Now that he had the opportunity, he was very happy. He felt that he had to show himself well anyway, so he rectified the army and prepared to go down the river to support the Wu army.

And just when Huang Zu's preparations were almost ready and he was about to leave, Liu Biao's backyard caught fire.

Three of the four counties in Jingnan, under the leadership of Zhang Xian, the prefect of Changsha, rebelled against Liu Biao's rule and announced that they would recognize Guo Peng's rule over them and would return to the banner of the Han Empire instead of Liu Biao's banner.

Lingling County and Guiyang County responded to Zhang Xian, and the three counties gathered more than 3 troops. Chen Bing Changsha planned to cross the Yangtze River and attack Jiangling in the north, so as to join Guo Peng.

This incident happened very suddenly, which disrupted Liu Biao's overall plan. Liu Biao quickly ordered Huang Zu to stop his actions temporarily, because he had more important things to do.

He couldn't bear to be beaten at both ends.

And just at this time, the fierce battle to destroy Wu officially started.

On June 28th of the second year of Jian'an, Zhang Liao sent people across the river to Moling to present Sun Quan and Zhou Yu with a final document persuading them to surrender.

Prior to this, Zhang Liao had sent Sun Quan and Zhou Yu two forms of persuasion to surrender according to Guo Peng's order. They also refused to persuade them to surrender.

After the third rejection, there is no room for negotiation.

On the first day of July in the second year of Jian'an, Zhang Liao gave an order, and the three armies of Yu Jin, Xu Huang, and Zang Ba agreed on a time, and launched an attack almost at the same time.

They ordered the water army mixed with large and small boats to cross the Yangtze River and start a fierce attack on the Wu army, and the battle to destroy Wu officially began.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Zhang Xian, the prefect of Changsha, really did not instigate the chaos.

Guo himself only found out about Zhang Xian's rebellion later, but he didn't know why Zhang Xian had a cramp in his head and wanted to resist Liu Biao at this time.

Still under his banner.

Are you showing your favor to him?

Even the local spies of the Linzi camp in Jingzhou were stunned by this, not knowing what was going on in Zhang Xian's brain circuit.

In fact, Zhang Xian and Liu Biao's disagreement is a well-known thing in Jingzhou, and the delicate relationship between the four counties in southern Jing and the three counties in northern Jing is also known to the local people.

But no one knows how Zhang Xian raised his troops to make trouble at this very moment.

It may be because the two often have conflicts and fight each other. Such behavior makes everyone think that it is normal for Zhang Xian to rebel, right?

But no matter what, Zhang Xian can be regarded as helping Guo Peng.

Because of his rebellion, Liu Biao's reinforcement plan was stranded. As a last resort, Liu Biao began to mobilize a large number of troops to gather in Jiangling, preparing to go south to quell the chaos.

It is really a coincidence that the battle to destroy Wu started at this time.

After the previous battle in Hefei, Zhang Liao also began to train his soldiers to fight on the water.

After occupying the land of Huainan, the large number of water systems in Huainan can facilitate the training of the navy, so Zhang Liao used these water systems on a large scale to train the army's water combat effectiveness, and also paid attention to recruiting local people with good water skills to join the army to enhance the water combat effectiveness.

The effect is quite good, at least for now Wei Jun can also use a fairly large-scale and decent water offensive.

And this time, Wei Jun still has an advantage.

Facing Wei Jun's fierce water offensive, Wu Jun fought back decisively.

The armies of the Wu army had been tense for a long time. Now that the Wei army finally launched an attack, the Wu army immediately resisted.

The generals of the Wu army ordered the troops to meet the enemy with boats, and used high-speed maneuvering warships to counterattack the Wei army's warships. The two sides fought fiercely on the water.

The main methods of ancient water warfare were cross-shooting with bows and arrows, collision warfare and gang-jumping warfare. Before hot weapons were popularized, water warfare was mainly based on bows and arrows.

The sailors on the ship are divided into fighters, archers, and boatmen. The fighters are responsible for defense and jumping gang fights after the ship approaches. They hold knives, shields and spears. , preside over ramming battles with skilful boat handling.

Before jumping gang battles, it is usually a boarding and ramming battle. In a ramming battle, a larger ship has an advantage.

In this battle, because he was afraid that the Wei army's trebuchets would attack the Wu army's warships, and he was even more afraid that the Wei army would install the trebuchets on large-scale ships, Zhou Yu gave up using large slow ships to fight and switched to small, high-speed ships.

In this way, the trebuchet was indeed useless, but Wu Jun also lost the advantage of the big ship.

Wu Jun dared not use it, but Wei Jun dared to use it.

In the collision battle, the big ship has the advantage.

Zhang Liao trained a group of capable boatmen, recruited Ding Zhuang who was good at sailing in the Huainan area, and then set up a large armed warship to ram the Wu army's boat.

There must be an advantage for a big ship to collide with a small boat. When the collision passed, the soldiers of the Wei army would use crossbow arrows on the ship to shoot the soldiers on the Wu army ship, causing them great damage.

At the beginning, the large ships of the Wei army caused a lot of trouble to the group of small warships of the Wu army and sank many of the small ships of the Wu army.

But soon, the front-line generals of the Wu army took advantage of their speed and began to take advantage of their speed. Instead of playing ramming and boarding battles with the Wei army's warships, they used their speed to continuously attack the Wei army's large ships with arrow rain.

Chapter 721 730 Battle on the water

Wei Jun's ships are large and powerful, but what comes with them is lack of mobility. Facing the speed advantage of Wu Jun's large number of small ships, there is a posture of having more than enough heart but not enough strength.

Although the strength is strong, the enemy will not confront you head-on, but will play guerrillas with you, and use bows and arrows to fight long-distance water battles. At this time, the size of the ship is a risk.

Wu Jun's boatman and sailors also have sufficient combat experience, full of skills, and excellent boat handling skills, which made Wei Jun suffer a lot in this regard.

The boatmen recruited by the Wei army had no experience in water warfare, and their skills were sufficient, but some skills on the battlefield could only be understood with battlefield experience.

Wei Jun's boatman can't compete with Wu Jun's boatman in these skills, and he suffers a lot if he can't catch up with the ship hitting a turn and so on.

The Wu army's ships kept shooting arrows around the Wei army's big ship. It was difficult for the Wei army's ships to capture the Wu army's ships, so they could only passively fight.

The mobility of the battlefield was insufficient, and the formation of the Wei army's water army was also a little messy.

Some small boats of the Wu army rely on such advantages. Three or five small boats work together to hook a small boat of the Wei army with a hook gun and pull out of the formation, and then a large number of Wu army soldiers swarm up to fight.

As a result, the soldiers on the big ship of the Wei army were passively beaten, and the soldiers on the small boat had no choice but to report to the commanding officer because of the tactics of the Wu army navy.

Guo Jia, as the brains of the whole army, carefully studied the water battle for a period of time before the battle.

But like Yu Jin, without experience, it is difficult to make any subtle arrangements. We can only make more use of boats and hook guns, and follow the way Wu Jun fought.

So he ordered the small boat to attack, the big boat retreated, and quickly entered the link of jumping gang battles, using the fighting that Wei Jun is better at to fight against Wu Jun.

Fighting on land, Wu Jun will still be afraid of Wei Jun's three-pointer, and fighting on water is Wu Jun's housekeeping skill. If he loses, what else is there to fight?

But of course Zhang Liao was also aware of this matter. After the Battle of Hefei, the soldiers were trained rigorously, and they were asked to practice water warfare in the Huaihe River every day.

Not to mention combat experience, at least in the matter of water combat, Wei Jun will not be at a disadvantage due to seasickness or unstable standing. Instead, he has practiced the mode of a three-person combat team.

The two sides shouted and bumped into each other, followed by dancing and fighting, waving swords and fighting each other. There was a storm on the water, and the shouting was extremely violent.

Wei Jun's offensive was very fierce, and Wu Jun's resistance was also very fierce. For a while, both sides can't do anything to me, and I can't do anything to you.

The Wei army has an advantage in numbers and the number of warships, while the Wu army has an advantage in technology and experience in water combat.

So there was a fierce battle, and the two sides drew to a tie.

Zhou Yu soon learned that the war was starting, and immediately ordered the generals of the army to fight back desperately. They must absolutely defend the Yangtze River defense line, and must not let the Wei army land.

On the water, the Wu army can still fight against the Wei army by virtue of its water advantage. Once on land, once the Wei army is formed, it will be bad.

Wu Jun's military formation and land combat effectiveness are really inferior to Wei Jun's, which Zhou Yu has to admit.

Guo Peng's army, who started out in field warfare, did not fear any opponent in land field warfare. No matter who dared to challenge, he dared to fight and win.

The chance of Wu Jun's victory lies in the water battle, on the defense line along the river, on the life-and-death line of preventing Wei Jun from crossing the Yangtze River.

As long as the Wei army cannot cross the Yangtze River, the Sun Wu regime can be preserved. If the Wei army can cross the Yangtze River and drive them back, I am afraid it will not be as difficult as usual.

From the first day of July to the seventh day of July, the two sides fought sixteen small battles, all of which were the Wei army's initiative to attack, and the Wu army had not yet initiated an attack.

On the three battlefields, Yu Jin, Xu Huang, and Zang Ba commanded the Wei army to launch a total of [-] attacks against the Wu army, but none of them succeeded.

The Wei army's attacks repeatedly retreated because they could not break through the Wu army's warship defense line, and several times they were defeated and retreated.

All three aspects were frustrated because they could not break through the Wu army's defense line, which damaged some soldiers and horses, exposing the weakness of the Wei army that was indeed not as strong as the Wu army in water warfare.

There is no way, the training time is still short, although the soldiers are familiar with the water, but some places can not be trained by training, it will take a few battles.

The gap between the ship's maneuvering techniques and the water warfare mode is the main reason why Wei Jun suffers, but this cannot be improved in a short time, and for Wei Jun, it is actually not necessary.

At the same time, the Wu army continued to lose troops and horses because of the powerful bows and crossbows of the Wei army and the three-person team battle mode used when fighting on the ship. During the collision battle, it also suffered a big loss because the size of the ships was not as good as the warships of the Wei army. However, the number of damaged ships and sailors is actually quite a lot.

The equipment on the warships of the Wei Army was of high quality, and the equipment of the soldiers of the Wei Army was also of high quality. When two knives collided, it was often the knife in the hands of the soldiers of the Wu Army that broke first.

In addition, in terms of armor, the light armor and helmets on Wei Jun's body are also of better quality than Wu Jun's, and their defense is stronger. Therefore, once they enter the stage of jumping gang battles and the two sides fight each other, the casualty rate of Wei Jun is lower than that of Wu Jun.

Wei Jun's combat skills are not good, but they can rely on superior equipment to make up for it. Wu Jun's combat skills are superb, but they are not as good as Wei Jun in terms of equipment, so they suffer.

The front-line officers of both sides reported the battle summary to the commanding generals. The generals summarized, reflected, communicated with each other, and began to think about the next stage of combat methods.

Yu Jin received feedback from the frontline officers that the combat skills were not as good as Wu Jun's and the lack of maneuverability of the ships.

Zhou Yu also got feedback from the frontline officers about the Wei army's equipment and the advantages of the big ship, and he also felt very headache, thinking that this is not a problem that can be solved in a while.

But Yu Jin hadn't brought out his trump card yet, but Zhou Yu had already gone all out.

Zhou Yu had heard about the issue of the Wei army's equipment for a long time, because when Sun Ce was still working under Yuan Shu's banner under the banner of Yuan Shu, Zhou Yu knew that Yuan Shu's army used a lot of military equipment forged by the Guo Peng Group.

At that time, Yuan Shu directly used the ordnance provided by Guo Peng because Guo Peng asked for a low price and the quality was good. On the contrary, he seldom forged knives and other ordnance.

Guo Peng didn't know how to do it. The quality of weapons and armor was indeed very high, and the asking price was indeed very low. In many cases, it was even lower than Yuan Shu's own casting. Yuan Shu always regarded Guo Peng as his little brother. So I use it with confidence, and I am very happy, and I love me every bite.

As a result, he ended up decapitated.

To be honest, Zhou Yu still can't figure out why Yuan Shu trusts Guo Peng so much.

After Guo Peng eliminated Yuan Shu, he naturally would not continue to supply arms. As Yuan Shu's former subordinate, Sun Ce's forces could not get the weapons provided by Guo Peng Group. However, at the same time, Sun Ce's own power also became great, and he began to recruit blacksmiths to forge weapons. .

But no matter how they compare, they can't surpass Guo Peng's weapons. The weapons forged by Guo Peng Group are good in quality.

It is said that Guo Peng summoned a large number of blacksmiths and carried out a very large-scale centralized production of ordnance and materials. The number of blacksmiths he called was as many as tens of thousands. However, Sun Ce was also doing this, and thousands of blacksmiths were also forging weapons for the Wu army. It is centralized production, so why is it not good in quality?

Wouldn't it be better if there were more people?

Zhou Yu is not an expert, so he doesn't understand.

Moreover, even if he understands it right now, it doesn't make much sense. Could it be that he can still carry out technological innovations in the midst of the war?

Chapter 722. 730 - Someone Guo's Crisis Public Relations

Zhou Yu didn't have that time anymore.

Wei Jun's offensive has not weakened. It is obvious that he wants to wipe out the Sun Wu regime in one go, and does not intend to continue to let the Sun Wu regime survive.

Guo Peng's side is indeed fully prepared in terms of various factors, including his own aspects, internal needs, and Gu Yong's request, etc. It is inevitable to destroy Wu.

Everyone is looking forward to Guo Peng's further advancement, and further progress, to ascend to the position of supreme, and the position of supreme requires credit and opportunity.

In addition, Gu Yong's request was also very earnest, begging Guo Peng to act as soon as possible, lest the Sun Wu regime bloody the Jiangdong clan and Guo Peng would get nothing.

His own Gu family was still in Jiangdong, and he was forced to marry Sun Quan with his daughter-in-law, and he was forced to pay heavy taxes to Zhou Yu to usher in the war. very difficult.

Through the letters they sent over secretly, Gu Yong learned that the family was in dire straits, the difficult situation of the family members, and all kinds of unsightly harsh treatment.

Therefore, he sent a form to Guo Peng very sadly, asking Guo Peng to speed up the pace of attacking Jiangdong, and asking Guo Pengnian to protect Gu's family and his family for the sake of his years of following.

He doesn't want to lose his family.

For those who follow him wholeheartedly and who will become important objects of support for him to become emperor, Guo has always given him very preferential treatment.

So someone Guo immediately wrote back to Gu Yong personally, reassuring Gu Yong, saying that he would definitely send troops to rescue and protect the Gu family, and told Gu Yong not to have any worries. After the Sun Wu regime was resolved, he would make these people pay the price .